New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-12
THE BIG STRIKE AT AN END.
SYMPATHETIC STRIKERS TO GO TO WORN.
AUSTIN coRpIN AND DISTRICT NO. 20 AGREE
ENGINEERS AND BREWERS WILL NOT sTRIKE.

handlers to help the New-Jersey ooal-handlers to
resist a reduction in wages has to an end and
the 80 900 men who strike through sympathy
will be at work again Monday provided their places
have not been flied This was brought about by o
settlement made with Austin Corbin In Philadelphia
Yesterday. Some Of the companies have not yet
granted the demand but as District Assembly No 40
regarded Mr.. Corbn as their main adversary. aud
he has made with them they have concluded to
recommend" 10 the men whom they 9" recon-
mended to come out that they should 90 back to
work. go
brewers and stationary engineers which intended
by the managers of the 'lOngshoremens and coal
handlers strike to be stroke which would bring the
movement to q triumphant end vas o complete fail
ure Not man IN either trade obeyed the order. The
effect OF the refusal dispirng the strikers.
number of them returned TO work Yesterday.
A speoial meeting of the Executive Board of the
Jourpeyman Brewers Association was called for yes
terdsy morning at No. 215 Forsyth-st, to consider
what action should be taken Secretary Heerbrandt
told of the order strike but laid that the officials of
district Assembly No. 40 refused TO give il in writing
with the seal OF the district attached and unless he re-
ceiyed such an order would refuse to take the
sponsblty of ordering strike. The Executive Board
approved his and instructed him to Secre-
tary Seiiert of the Master Brewers Association They
also passed resolutions Of sympathy with the strikers
and ordered an assessment OF 20 cents week each
member. Mr.. Heerbrandt went at once to the head
quarters of the Master Brewers at No Clinton place.
where he found Mr.. Seiiert AID excited crowd OF
brewers xiousy awaiting the result OF the meeting
of the iourneymen There was a long consultation be-
was made that there would be strike the present
time at all events. Dir. Heerbrandt who practically
controls the iourneymons organization, ii at
tempt is made discip inc the brewers for their
fusal TO obey an informal order appeal will be
taken directly to the General Executive Board
The action OF the ale and porter brewers smil0r
TO that of the lager brewers When Master Work
man O'Conne received the order no Mt once sent to
tie various breweries and informed the men, Meetings
were called for last night OF the employees in each
establishment to decide what action should be taken.
Contracts have been made with all the brewers by
which the men promise not to strike provided they
ceye union rates and only union employed
under union rules. All OF these provisions had been
observed by the master brewers and the men decided
10 keep to the contracts and not 90 out unless the
engineers struck and an attempt werc made by the
brewers to start up with nou-unon engineers.
ing OF the Master Ale and Porter Brewers Association
will be held to-day at No. Clinton ,,lace and the
officers OF the ,ourneymens union have been asked to
meet with them.
The order to strike which sent to the officers OF
the local assemblies of the Eccentric Association OF
Stationary Engineers quietly ignored and the
we're not ordered out individually and as a conse-
quence OF them quit work The men were con
sderaby disturbed by the reports in the
that they be ordered out. The general feeling
expressed by an engineer in an uptown factory
lie said don't want to knock off work. cant
what good going To do. St IL the proper officer
tells me to shut down I'll do il. Until tue order
IN proper FORM however, shall remain at work.
The officers of the Eccentric Association dssas-
fed at the wav which the strike has been managed.
and are inclined to the belief that their committee
could have brought about n settlement. They claim
that the order TO call their ont informal it
had the seal OF the district attached to IT. and they
therefore not bound to obey against their better
lud gmeht In view of this fact they had Thought
best to postpone action until conference Of the repre-,
sentatiyes all the local assemblies OF frcncn and
engineers, which will be held tonight.
There was n big Gro sd yesterday around Stevens
Fennmore Institute in Canal-st, the headquarters OF
District Assembly 40. IL largely composed OF
longshoremen and freight handlers: When the news
came in that the orders OF No 40 had been dsobeyed
by the brewers and eng they looked blank but
still protested e. believe that they would win the fight
in the end In the office the Board OF Arbitration were
in session nearly all day. They were partly dazed by
the blow they had received and were intensely indg-
nsnt at the refusal OF the engineers and brewers to
oboy orders. District Master Workman James T.
Quinn returned from a trip TO Boston, where he had
been to induce District Assembly No 80 TO aid the
strike. lie said :" don't know much about the ait.
uaton now as have been away several days. will
say this II the engineers were ordered out
tney will either have to CONS out or get out Al the
meeting the Exccuti ve Board OF District Assembly
No. &C. which held in Boston last night, 1t wu
resolved give moral and financial mid TO the strike
One OF the engineers said " by our striking We
would throw 10000 men and women out OF work, and
we do not care 10 take that responsibility"
At the headquarters of tho Ocean Association the
men han rather discouraged air. and 1t was aoknow
edged that some OF the strikers had gone back To work
However James Hurley one OF the Executive Board
said ANYBODY who believes that this strike Is over
Is mistaken"
The gloom about tho StevensFennmore Institute
and the headquarters OF tho Ocean Association was
changed to rejoicing when about p m. Timothy -
Putnam. who has hal charge of the strike and who
for two DAYS has been in Philadelphia trying 10
straighcn n ngs ont the Philadelphia and Reading
road arrived AT the hall. lie eagerly welcomed
by District Master Workman Quinn and til, members
OF the Board Of Arbitration and short executive ses
sion held At is coDclusion Mr. Putnam came out
and made the following statement
committee of the employed BY tho Read
O. %o1Sn: d on and MT told F' HIM S we're 0S
.sIsssH. to i.,TIS Xs;s%oy SO 80 T1S
that had been partially made oGs tern. were
who the ros Of the road dcccsd 10 open
work At haSehPG wnn ws s, s .ate s.oa
three or four DAYS 10 get coal from the mine lie
sny serenss. are hoy are TO DO unlimited TO ar
party !. to be called decision mai
KNIGHTS Of aToI he'd and aseiSd %
OF ono s the State ' Of NswYor and to rsc"%%aHS
all nSg'' M cn came n, out cd to sSgP. Inc
return TO work BY Monday. should there be any
or individual viii continued against IN our
Port johnson. weehawken and Perth ApLoy
viii not resume at once that Mr. corbn must have Time
T. III his and TO give Gn, people an Opportunity TO
Mr. Corbn should prove Jay Goud forfeit his honor
nl% s w SSn ana eds s s
10 sustain him In any action he b.
Alter he had finished reading the statement Mr.
Putnam said 1.-THE strike ia and 1t is n victory
Tor united labor. Mr. Corbn made the first reduction
from cents hour to 20 hour and II was
to support this strike that the oher men went out
Now Mr. Corbn ngrees to restore the old rate of wages
and tho necessity Tor the other being out ceases
The strike will not be declared of by the district Tor
the district has ordered strike, but committees will
see the and recommend that they return to
work Monday Committees will visit the various
places where men have strike and I'm places
where they will all be taken back to work thew will
return on Monday. In such places they will not
agree TO take baol all hands none will 70 back we
do not anticipate any further trouble on that score
however. The Old Dominion strike Is In tho back
ground and has nothing to do with this case"
number OF the 'longshoremen were In tho hall
when The news came and al once hurried to such meet
ihg-places they could reach 10 carry the news
The strike OF the coal-hsndlers Is still ON ayoinat
such coal companies as will not pay 22n CENTS an hour
to topmen. but ii is thought that hey will soon be
forced to follow the example OF Mr.. Corbin
The order 10 the engineers ana bre Wera In strike
MI. na.. 81.